{"id":10582,"date":"2013-12-18T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:22:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-12-18T17:22:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:22:23","slug":"the_santa_claus_race_controversy_goes_way_beyond_just_political_correctness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/12\/18\/the_santa_claus_race_controversy_goes_way_beyond_just_political_correctness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Santa Claus Race Controversy Goes Way Beyond Just Political Correctness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/54830\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Do you remember the controversy that came up with Megyn Kelly when she said that Santa Claus is white?  And Jesus.  But we\u2019ll stick with Santa Claus for this, because there was a teacher out there who really got this ball rolling.  It\u2019s an AP story here from Rio Rancho, New Mexico.  &#8220;A suburban Albuquerque teacher who told a black student that Santa Claus is white has been placed on paid administrative leave.&#8221;  Rio Rancho school district spokeswoman Kim Vesely confirmed yesterday that the teacher is out of the classroom while the incident is being investigated. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The teacher\u2019s comments came week after students at Cleveland High School were told they could come to class dressed as Santa, an elf or a reindeer. Michael Rougier says when his ninth-grade son, Christopher, arrived with Santa hat and beard, the teacher asked, &#8216;Don\u2019t you know Santa Claus is white? Why are you wearing that?\u2019  The incident happened the same week that Fox News Channel\u2019s Megyn Kelly said both Santa Claus and Jesus were white.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_85192\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushSantaMegyn.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so the teacher who said Santa is white is placed on administrative leave while an investigation is being conducted.  Now, what would happen if a teacher said, &#8220;Well, wait a minute, Martin Luther King was black.&#8221;  Would that be controversial?  I mean, Santa Claus is white.  We discussed this.  In every portrayal of Santa Claus since the beginning of Santa Claus, Santa Claus is white.  Do you realize what this says about where we are in our culture?  I mean, it\u2019s a fact, it\u2019s just what is.  Apparently it isn\u2019t?  It\u2019s now controversial. We\u2019re gonna suspend a teacher. We\u2019re gonna do an investigation to find out what\u2019s behind this? <\/p>\n<p>So a personal insult to the young man.  The young man shows up as Santa Claus, teacher says, &#8220;You can\u2019t do that. Santa Claus is white. Who do you think you are?&#8221;  Well, it is getting absurd.  This is worse than political correctness.  This is Stalinism.  This is going way beyond political correctness. (interruption) Well, yeah, you can say if you don\u2019t like that just don\u2019t do it again. You can admonish the teacher if you want, &#8220;Hey, that wasn\u2019t cool.&#8221;  But, I mean, that\u2019s not what they\u2019re going after.  This is a door open, make a point about race, it\u2019s just absurd.  The point it makes about racism, America is racist, that Santa Claus is an imaginary figure, he doesn\u2019t exist, and the white power structure made him white because they\u2019re a bunch of supremacists, and it makes everybody who\u2019s not white feel inferior and insignificant and left out, and we\u2019re not gonna do that anymore. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14024\"><img id=\"eZObject_85247\" alt=\"original\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaSantaElection2012.jpg\" class=\"img_\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So Santa Claus, a make-believe figure, you say he\u2019s white, that\u2019s racism.  That\u2019s what it means.  That\u2019s what\u2019s behind it all. (interruption) Well, okay.  That may be, too.  Snerdley is shouting at me that the message is that you conservatives can\u2019t talk about race unless we grant you permission.  You can\u2019t even bring it up. You can\u2019t say what you think unless we grant you permission.  How do we know the teacher wasn\u2019t attacking Santa Claus by calling him white?  There\u2019s so much here that we don\u2019t know.  Teacher investigation?  Is it controversial to say, &#8220;Wait a minute, you can\u2019t do that, Martin Luther King was black.&#8221;  I mean, this is just absurd folks.  It\u2019s gone beyond any rhyme or reason. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Do you remember the controversy that came up with Megyn Kelly when she said that Santa Claus is white? And Jesus. But we\u2019ll stick with Santa Claus for this, because there was a teacher out there who really got this ball rolling. 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